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II AUSTELL AT A. LEl'IDOPTER A. 



reddish bro\v!i, with a darker central fascia, and yellowish-red posterior 

 wings. 

 The caterpillar feeds on the Marsh ^Villow herb {Epilobium palustre); and the 

 imago occurs about the middle of July. 



Not common ; found occasionally at Coombe and Darenth Woods; 

 also in the New Forest and in Devonshire. 



Genus CCLIII. — Cledkobia* tniJu. 



Palpi two, long, porrected longitudinally, compressed, broad, very densely 

 clothed with compact scales, triartictdate, the terminal joint exposed; basal 

 joint short, second broud, obtuse, third very small, acute : maxillw rather 

 long. Antenna slender, rather long, densely ciliated beneath in the males, 

 slightly so in the females : head small, furnished with a tult of hairs in 

 front: eyes globose: thorax slender : abdomen elongate, compressed, with a 

 tuft at the apex in the males, somewhat obtuse in the females: wings rather 

 narrow: anterior elongate triangular, obtuse at the apex, sombi-e, with 

 transverse darker lines ; posterior slightly emarginate, ovate triangular : cilia 

 moderate ;_/e^ri slender, simple; posterior tibise with two pair of spurs. 



Under the genus Hypena Mr. Curtis remarks that the insects 

 associated under the name Pyralidas are so dissimilar, that if structure 

 be of any importance, they should be divided into two families, some 

 having four and others two palpi, some with and some without 

 maxiihe, and proposes their division into two families in consequence: 

 had he followed up this observation by an examination of specimens, 

 instead of copying my genus Cledeobia from my Catalogue, he would 

 have detected the great impropriety of associating the genus Synaphe 

 therewith, the present genus not only differing in general habit, but 

 being destitute of the maxillary palpi, which are so very conspicuous 

 in the genus last mentioned. 



Sp. 1. nlbistrigatus. Alis suhfuscis, anticis fascia lata medio saturatiore nigro 

 tenninatd, postice strigd undulatd alhidd. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 10 lin.) 



Cr. albistrigatus. Haworth.— CL albistrigatus. Steph. Caial. ii. 159. 

 No. 6769. 



Wings pale fuscous; anterior with a broad central darker band, terminated 

 near the base by a slender zigzag black streak, and behhid the middle by a 

 broader slightly flexuous one ; adjoining to which on the inner margin is a 



K.\))foc sepes, jSuiu vivo. 



